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The iPhone User Experience: A First Look is a solid overview from Tog at the Nielsen Norman Group on where the iPhone is likely to deliver as well as possibly disappoint. Tog also covers off some technical implementations and their source — himself from many moons ago as a prior Apple and Sun software [...]

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Caught this one yesterday …
I could hardly believe my eyes today when I read in the press that 3, a mobile network operator in a number of countries, will no longer charge hyper-exorbitant roaming fees for UMTS data usage in their sister networks abroad. Their new offer is called “3 Like Home”. [Martin's [...]

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I was watching a DVD with my 3yr old daughter Hannah yesterday and it skipped, paused and actually restarted.  She said immediately “maybe the TV is tired of playing this DVD, Dad.”
I had been thinking how tired I was of watching this particular show myself, but found it amazing that she considered this notion for [...]

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Just watched this (thanks John!) and realized that unlike other smartphones, iPhone applications either politely quit or are able to be minimized to such a degree that they are always running. When you watch this, there does not seem to be much difference between returning to an app (state is saved) or opening it [...]

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I’ve been watching a new gadget show on TV called Geared Up which is available on INHD or Mojo (their nighttime name) and I have sort of a love hate relationship with it. The show fills a gaping hole for gadget and tech content and of course the HD bit gives it an extra [...]

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Last week I had a day in NYC and after I took care of a few matters I wandered (ok made a beeline) to the Nokia Store, as I’ve been an enthusiastic user now for quite some time. I then walked a few blocks south to the Sony Style store before heading to SoHo [...]

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I find myself doing quite a bit of feed reading and email on mobile devices (I’m sure your shocked to hear) and have been working around the limits of the Google Reader Mobile edition. In short it’s pretty lame. You can’t easily read through rivers of your tags for starters and I’m [...]

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Cingular Wireless — click on to sign up on the Cingular site for availability…

Technorati Tags: Apple, Cingular, iPhone, Mobile

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I just clicked through all the networks and they are all showing an SD broadcast … seems like a missed opportunity to me.

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While the iPhone was rumored for years, I think it’s fair to say it’s still surprising and amazing to see! What Apple has included (200 patents) is truly amazing and I hope it works as well as the flash demo they’ve got running - though I have great confidence it will.
Let’s quickly run [...]

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An interesting title I suppose… but a particular issue with the fantastic Symbian browser is that it is greets web servers as a full - not mobile browser. While this feature lets you browse the full page of sites - something I really like - it also prevents you from being able to login [...]

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Alec Saunders takes a shot at the Gizmo implementation for Nokia stating:
It’s very cool to be able to make WiFi SIP calls from the N80i, but the software:
* Doesn’t give easy access to my Gizmo buddy list.
* Doesn’t make it easy to create a conference call.
* Doesn’t include the fun sound effects that Gizmo has.
* [...]

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Sunset from the home office, originally uploaded by atmasphere.

Beautiful sunset outside tonight… the N80 did not seem to capture the rich reds I was seeing, but, you will hopefully still get the idea.

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Here’s a great way to start the year…
I’ve previously reported issues getting Gizmo to work on my home network and I’ve finally nailed the problem… my router (D-Link DGL-4100) was blocking Port 5060. Now that I’ve defined Gizmo as a special application on the router it’s open and working! I had posted on [...]

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